Micro-Community Lab

By-KIARA & ZHIJUN

Introduction:
We experimented with potatoes and potato chips to see
the difference between the communities of organisms.
We observed the experimented for four days, collect the
data, and use the dissecting microscope to see which one
are have more organism.
Problem:
How does the community organisms difference between potato and potato chips?
Hypothesis:
The community organisms are prefer potatoes.
Materials:
● Potato
● Potato Chips
● Alcohol
● 8 5ml plastic cups
● Beaker
● Dissecting Microscope
● Hand trowel
procedure:
1. Get all the materials.
2. Find a place.
3. Put potato and potato chips on that spot that we found.
4. Dig four hole around the potato and potato chips.
5. Put 8 plastic cups in each hole.
6. Pour alcohol in the cups.
7. The next day to collect the old alcohol and pour the new alcohol in the cups.
8. Observed with dissecting microscope.
9. Collect data
Stats:
Potato chips:
.
Organisms Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 di fi

Slug 1 0 1 0 .5 .5

Ant 0 2 2 0 1 .5

Collembola 0 0 2 0 .5 .25

Mite 0 0 2 0 .5 .25

Centipede 0 0 0 1 .25 .25

 Potato:
Organisms Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 di fi

Fruit Fly 1 0 0 0 .25 .25

Mosquito 0 2 0 0 .5 .25

Red Spider 0 1 0 0 .25 .5

Rove Beetle 0 1 0 0 .25 .25

Worm 0 1 1 0 .5 .5

Collembola 0 0 0 1 .25 .25

Slug 0 0 0 1 .25 .25

The Quotient of Similarity of potato and potato chips is:

Q=33.33
Food Web:
conclusion
The results supported the hypothesis that the
communities of organisms are prefer potato.
From the food web of potato, we can tell that more
organisms prefer the potato over potato chips, but
for the food web of potato chips it doesn’t have that
much organism to eat it.